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JBJ 22 gallons tank journey


trunglippo

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Hi everyone,

 

My name is Trung, and I am new to the forum. I have been around salt hobby for almost a year with good and bad times. However, I have learned so hard for this hobby, so I would like to re-do everything on my JBJ 22 gallons tank. I just found the nano-reef forum through a good friend today, so I would like to build a thread for my tank. I hope everyone give me advices, feedbacks, or any opinion you have, so I can learn more and improve in this hobby.

 

Here is my old tank

 

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JBJ 22 gallons All in one tank.

Mj1200 return pump
50 watts heater
Coralife bubble skimmer
Jebao mp25
Finnex Marine LED light
Live stocks: 2 designed clownfish, 1 yellow wrasse, 1 fire shrimp, clean up crews, and soft corals.

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New set up will be

Same tank JBJ 22 gallons All in one tank
Mj1200 return pump
50 watts heater
Esshop nano skimmer
VorTech MP10ES
Al Hydra 26 light

 

I am going to keep SPS mainly later, so this will be a big challenge for me.

 


In the main time working on the display tank, I moved all the live stocks to 10 gallons bare bottom tank with small pump and aqua clear 30 filter temporarily. Everything seems doing fine. 10% of water change (WC) every week.

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I built the stand for the tank since it will be moving from my bedroom to living room. I used small wood studs, plywood, and moldings to build the stand. Everything is from Home Depot, and anyone can do it. :)

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After painted with white color

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Light hanger was built and painted with white color also. Wood looking is always my favorite

 

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Tesing Al Hydra 26 light

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Looks great so far! Can't wait to see it all set up. Welcome to Nano-Reef!

Thank you Smithjm5, and nice to meet you.

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Alright, I drained all water out and wiped the tank dry. Now, I just let the tank air dry for couple days while I will be working on the rock scape and wires.

 

This will be a SPS tank, so I got this substrate, so it will not be blown around the tank

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...and some dry rocks

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I did the rock scape last Friday...

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..and water was filled in last Saturday....the common cloudy color...

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Tank has been clear up since Sunday night.

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I am going to test the water tonight and start adding a piece of shrimp in to create the ammonia source to start the cycle process.

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...so I did the water test last night. There was a small amount of ammonia in my tank like 0.25ppm. I think it came from the dead rocks and sand. There was so nitrite and nitrate, so I added a small piece of shrimp into the tank and will leave it there for week to see how it goes.

I will test the water again after 1 week.

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Anyone wants shrimp...lol

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  • 2 weeks later...

Alright, after one week and there were something happened. The temporary tank where I have kept corals and 2 clownfish got leaked on top at the corner, so it only has 2/3 water in the tank now. Corals so far are doing okay. I got the Dr. Tims One and Only one bacteria bottle from a friend. Therefore, I just poured half of bottle into the new tank and waited for 1 hour to move 2 clownfish over. They have been in there for 2 days so far, and they are doing well with swimming and eating normally. I only feed them once a day with small amount to keep track with all water parameter. So far I don't see any ammonia and nitrite anymore, but the nitrates is around 20ppm. I just pour 1 cap of the bacterias everyday until it's gone.

I also made the media bracket from eggcrate. There will be Chemipure, carbon, and phosphate removers in the bracket

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Here are some pics of the clownfish.

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Got some Nassarius Snail and Nerite Snail today. Nassarius only come out at night while the nerite is everywhere around the tank.

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